Lanthorn, Vol. 3, No. 10, March 17, 1971 Grand Valley State University
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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 3 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 3-17-1971 Lanthorn, vol. 3, no. 10, March 17, 1971 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol3 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 3, no. 10, March 17, 1971" (1971). Volume 3. 10. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol3/10 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 3 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Womens Group Charges Sex Bias Six Gand Valley women have The report makes use of against women in hiring, two members of the group, She said that the students have compiled a paper charging the statistics, interviews and promotions, pay rates and other Lillian Elsinga and Janice Rock virtually no role models to college with sex discrimination. q u o ta tio n s from various more subtle ways. were not available at the time. pattern their lives after, and are The document, which was nearly publications to support the According to the report, 1 he women toid us that they given iiitle encouragement io S months in the making, was contention that American about 18 percent of the GVSC have received a generally continue in fields other than presented to college president, colleges in general, and Grand faculty are women, the majority favorable reaction on the report, those, such as elementary or Arcnd Lubbers on March 11. Valley in particular, discriminate o f whom are in the English, Fine but said that they didn't know secondary teaching, which have Arts and Foreign Language yet what results their work been traditionally open to departments. Eight departments would bring. women. have no women faculty at all, Although the report shows The women apparently and three more have only one that students feel less agreed that the most important woman each. discriminated against than the purpose o f the report was simply The clerical, office and professional staff or faculty, to show publicly that sex technical staff is about 80 Miss Beiotc says that the discrimination is a fact of life at percent female. The report students are the ones who really GVSC. shows that 2/3 o f the women in suffer most from discrimination. this classification are in pay ranges which begin at less than SI00 a week. Two-thirds of the .V.S.C. S.H.A.St.S men are in ranges o f above $140 a week. There is only one female counselor, and only 12 women In administrative positions. Five of these are in library positions. “ A il positions which are logically low paying.” “ It is clear” this section concludes, “that there are few role models available to women students.” Concerning the status o f women students at Grand Valley the report said very little, since, Jody Nike - "Discrimination Is Real" as its authors explain, little information is available. The report docs include a summary of interviews which were conducted with over 100 femal students. O f the students interviewed, the majority “indicated they planned to marry and planned to work after marriage.” Thirty-seven percent felt that they had been discriminated against because o f their sex. The report states that “ the probability of discrimination against women increases as the level o f education increases. Thirty-seven percent of the female students felt they had experienced discrimination, while the figure for faculty women was 80%, and 100% for the professional staff that was interviewed. Fridays are very special for Zumberge Library, or individual The report concludes with a twenty-four third level students tutoring in some troublesome list of “recommendations”, the from Grand Rapids* Henry area o f study. major one being the Street Elementary School and The Grand Valley student establishment of a presidential more than twenty Grand Valley volunteer S.H.A.R.E. Program task force. Among other things State College students. Fridays, began in the spring of 1970 in Rusty M ot* • “StudmtM Suthr SSost” the task force would study except those during vacation GVSC alumni Mary Oberlys deparimcuUl htrisg practice*, periods, are S.H AA.E. days on second level clam at Henry. In methods of selection of unit the Grand Valley campus. the fall o f *70 students, teacher, ATTENTION STUDENTS IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR hands, salary schedules, and Each week Henry Street and volunteers ail “graduated** TEACHER AIDES AND majbpds of feenritinc and students arrive by bus for a to the third level. It Is a goal of A cowdttM is bring STUDENT TEACHERS! promoting women. morning of truly reciprocal the program to continue sharing Pieridsnt Lubbers has agreed participation with their life experiences with the tame rim rin h e«d the risen— Tbs Swiist to meet with the women on volunteer bit brothers and group o f young students through March 19 to d iscu s the listen. Their sharing may their high school years. include a nature study with a Debra K. Floyd, GVSC sanior IriS yT ’or staff taslbsw S t S m S im im On Monday the LANTHORN biology dam, a working from Gary, Indiana, serves as tatirarisd ta unbg as HMs fag f f f l r isebsr aMtaeb spoke with Rnsty Mote, experience in the coEege’s student coordinator of the rsmmlMss. gkaee eostaet tbs Aprfl |«, 1971. R i l s s i cm Adrians Oswald, Judy Nilas, does I rirciiR tsleriatap center, a SJI.A.R.E. Program, which wH Cs— —by Cesscfl sffin M pfcfc up ■pplrstteei ta lbs ' creation made in an art clam, a continue through May. discovery in the Jamas H. Sociology-Dr. Flanders BY JOHN BARNES has been started in the local project. area, concerning basically the In respect to other projects The department comprising western part o f the Grand being carried out in the the greatest number o f majors at Valley. This involves surveying a department instructor Roger Tro Grand Valley it the particular area o f land, and if the is presently taping an sociology-anthropology area looks promising, a test autobiography with an Ottawa department. Under the excavation is made. After the Indian, which will be compiled leadership o f Dr. Richard test results are observed, the in both English and the native Flanders, it undertakes to fill the decision is nude to pursue the language, which will be one o f needs o f the ever-increasing site further with extended the few records of the Ottawa number of individuals who are excavations if it is considered language. flocking to sociology for its desirable. Every summer since Professor Don Williams, who interpretation o f the nature o f 1965 this program has been is teaching three quarter time at the world. As anyone knows carried on, this past summer Grand Valley, is affiliated with who has witnessed a sociology bring the most rewarding. A the Urban Institute in Grand class recently, the number o f large village site was discovered Rapids which has many students to instructor ratio is the on the eastern bank o f the programs in progress aiding highest o f any department here. Grand River directly across front underprivileged people in the The number o f students the campus. The artifacts are Grand Rapids area. majoring in sociology numbers presently being processed in the The sociology-anthropology approximately 300. lab. Dr. Flanders described the department is presently Dr. Flanders, who was bom people as living approximately 4 comprised of the following in Iowa City, Iowa in 1931, A.D., and they are though to be faculty: Earl W. Enge, PhD., attended Iowa State Teachen o f the same type as the burial assistant professor of sociology; College for one year before mounds along the river in Richard Flanders, PhD., % entering teh Marine Corps, Grandville. The culture was associate professor of sociology where he spent the next three basically agricultural, with size and anthropology; Curtis Jones, yean o f his life. Upon discharge of each individual village not Ma, assistant professor o f from the Marines, he attended exceeding 120 people. T o aid in sociology; Roger Tro, MA Mexico City College for two the surveying and excavating, instructor in sociology; Donald semesten, and then returned to the anthropology department Williams, PhD., assistant Iowa and received his B.A. and was recently given a small professor o f sociology; and Carl M.A. in Sociology-Anthropology pontoon boat to facilitate Bajema, P h D ., associate ai iu «a State University. finding sites along the river Mrs. Koster Display Arriving in Michigan in 1960, bank. Some o f the sites are protessor of Bioiogy, who is and the Kalamazoo Institute of Dr. Flanders then attended the nearly inaccessible except presently offering a course in ALLENDALE - Print* by population problems in Art. Her works are also included University o f Michigan until through a cultivated field, which Majory Koster, Grand Rapds’ conjunction with the sociology in the collections of academic 1965, when he received the is difficult to cross with the artist, will be on exhibit in institutions, locally including doctorate degree in equipment necessary for the department. Manitou Hall Gallery from Calvin College, GVSC, and anthropology. A t this time, Friday, April 2 to Saturday, Kalamazoo College. Over 150 Fianaen was teaching at GVSC, April 24. Gallery hours are 8 prints by Mrs. Koster are in where he started in 1964.